Description:Actor Peter O’Toole died peacefully Saturday in a hospital, his agent Steve Kenis said Sunday. He was 81. O’Toole’s first major film role in the title role of T.E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962 was “absolute genius,” British film critic Richard Fitzwilliams told CNN. It earned him the first of eight Academy Award nominations and propelled him to world stardom.(1:48)